L.A. Schools Help Students Attend Bush-Bashing Rally, page 2

They weren't meant to be complements, but yes, they could be more derisive.

The LA Daily News and LA Times are the primary news sources for that area. However, just because a story isn't covered in one of their news papers doesn't mean that the story wasn't written or the event never happened. On top of that, just because someone else reported the story doesn't make it automatically false until the local newspapers jump on it. There are stories that are broken that the local media doesn't cover until it becomes a national news story. On top of all that, just because a right wing blog breaks a story, that doesn't make it automatically false. I seem to recall Dan Rather running with a story he really wanted to believe before a little right wing blog known as Little Green Footballs exposed the story for the fraud it was.

Now, in regards to going after the schools locking down to prevent more students from walking out, probably not. From what I currently understand, some schools did have lockdowns after students were protesting and trying to drag as many other students to this rally creating a walkout, and the LAUSD may have a policy to allow students to walk out. This is questionable, however, because the only reference to this policy is a memo stating students should not be stopped from walking out. Locking down a school to prevent students from leaving, however, is not any kind of political indoctrination, nor does it appear to be illegal. The kids are required to be in class, by law, unless a parent or guardian takes them out, and this particular school elected to enforce this by locking down the school.

As to the fines, I can only assume you're talking about the truancy fines? Those aren't made up. Ditching school is illegal. It is typically a misdemeanor offense. If a cop nails you for being out of school, he will arrest you, write you a ticket, and bring you to school. That, too, is not political indoctrination. If they didn't give the fines for truancy because the kids were going to a political rally, then that would be a form of political indoctrination. Fact is, the truancy officers did the same thing on the day of the rally as they do every day. It just so happened that on that day a few more students were out and about when they shouldn't have been.

So is it now ultra-conservative to enforce the law?

[edit on 11-16-2005 by junglejake]